Chole Bhatura
Chole Bhatura is a mouth watering dish and is the bigger cousin of a well-known Indian breakfast dish – Poori. Chole Bhatura is a combination of Chick Peas dish (chole) and the fried bread made from maida flour (bhatura).
My memory of Chole Bhatura growing up in South India has been that it is one of those exotic dishes that you can eat at a restaurant. I still remember the big puffed up dish served hot with fresh cut onions and a sliver of lime.
It turns out that even though it takes a little bit of time, Chole Bhatura can be made at home! And I am here to share that secret with you. Although I have to give a special mention to our friend Archie, who gave away his secret to making the perfect Bhatura! Read on..
Ingredients:
Bhatura Recipe:
- Maida : 2 cups
- yogurt : 3 tbsp
- Sooji/Semolina : 2 tbsp
- Egg : 1 large (optional)
- salt : 2 tsp
- Baking Powder : 1 tsp
Chole Curry Recipe:
- Chick peas/Channa : 2 cups (soak it in overnight or soak in hot water for 2 hrs and pressure cooker )
- Onions : 2 (medium)
- Oil : 3 tbsp
- Curry leaves : 5-6
- Green chilies : 4
- Tomato : 1/2
- Ginger and Garlic paste : 1 tbsp
- Red chili powder : 1 1/2 tbsp
- Coriander seeds : 1 tbsp
- Garam masala Powder : 1/2 tbsp
- Chole masala : 2 tbsp (optional if you have any instant masala powder)
- Coriander leaves : 2 tbsp
Method Of Preparation:
Batura :
- Take a wide vessel add maida, yogurt , salt, sooji/semolina, baking powder, egg (whisk lightly), and slowly add some warm water (Enough to knead the dough) and make a soft dough.
- Cover the dough with some wet cloth and keep it aside in warm place for fermentation. (about 3-4 hours)
- After that divide the dough into 12-14 equal portions and roll them into smooth balls.
- And roll the small balls individually into big sized puri.
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Choose a thick-bottomed pot and heat oil in it for deep frying.
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Make sure the oil is medium hot – you could drop a little dough to check this.
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Now gently slide the flattened Batura dough into the oil and gently press the batura in the center and along the edges into the oil with the back of a spoon/ladle.
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This should make it puff up nicely. Once its golden brown, turn it over and do the same.
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Make sure you have enough heat to cook the insides but high heat will just turn it into a dark color. The right medium heat is the key here.
- Serve it hot with chole masala.
Chole Curry:
- Take 1/4 cup of the pressure cooked channa and just pulse it in the blender and keep it aside.
- Heat oil in a pan add bay leaves , cloves and cinnamon after that add onions and fry them till it becomes lightly brown.
- Add green chilies, curry leaves and ginger garlic paste mix it all together fry them till the raw smell goes off and add the tomatoes now .
- Just mash it and add salt , turmeric powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder and chole masala(optional) mix it all together.
- Let it sit in the heat fry them till it becomes dry and the masala smell goes off.
- After that add ground channa and the remaining whole channa mix it all well and cook in medium heat for 5- 10 minutes.
- Finally add the coriander leaves toss it all together and remove from heat.
- Serve hot with bhatura and lime 🙂
18 Comments
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Um… aren’t you just about an hours drive away from me in Michigan, if I remember correctly??? I will be over for breakfast! YUM!
Hehehe yup you are right and you are mostly welcome for breakfast 🙂
I think Batura recipe traditionally needs Yeast for fermentation- follow the directions on the Yeast packet and then leave the dough to rise for a few hours.
hi ur recepie looks good will try it but how will chole masala taste with out the chole masala powder.u have mentioned it optional. what brand instant powder did u add.if u can tell me i will try it and all credits go to u.one more thing u look beautifull in the picture
Hi sowjanya,
I’ve use Everest chole masala, which is really gud and its add flavor to the chole. Thanks for your comment.
good very good but I don’t like onion then what i should do
Wooow,,my faaaaav batura dear usually on weekend i wont miss chaat n this batura in north indian restaurant here near to my place,,, woow what a delicious one dear…ur’s look perfect n perfect.
Looks yummy…I used to love Chole Bhatura from a drive in hotel called “Woodlands” in Chennai.
Rgds, Shobha
Planning to make this tonight..but you have mentioned corr seeds…where does that go in? Pl reply asap..thanks!
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idea is good, but my chana recipe is mind blowing.
supparb
but nevertheless receipe is great:)
I just prepared it n it turned out yummy. Thanks a ton 🙂
Thats perfect, thanks for the post.
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thanks!!!!!!
My wife loves Chole Bhatura and thanks to you, I successfully surprised her with this preparation by the time she was back from her office!
The chole recipe is amazing. Since I had not planned for this earlier, I had to take some shortcuts like adding potato to Bhatura to workaround the overnight fermentation process and leaving the chole in hot boiling water for 1 hr to achieve the same same softness of overnight soaking.
Even with minor workarounds, I think I could pull it off reasonably well! Thanks to you once again!
Regards,
Deepak